Reflection of Viewpoint
During class next week and this week, we worked on the actors' viewpoints. Viewpoint helps and encourages both actors and directors but mostly actors to focus less on the psychology of their characters but more on the use of space, movement of their body. In class, we did many different viewpoints exercises and learned about several vocabulary terms you needed to understand before participating in actor viewpoint. Some of the terms we learned were Tempo, Duration, Kinesthetic Response, Spatial Awareness, Topography, Shape, Gesture, and Architecture. Tempo is how fast or slow something happening on the stage. A gesture is an expressive shape that has a beginning, middle, and an end — doing a movement with your body is considered as a gesture. A tempo can affect the action of the performer. When acting on stage, everything you do means something to the audience. Going fast, slow, or moving your body differently, tell the audience what you want them to know. Duration is how long movem...
